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Chillwave was one of the first music genres to develop primarily through the Internet. The term was coined in 2009 by the satirical blog Hipster Runoff to lampoon microgenres and indie acts whose sounds resembled incidental music from 1980s VHS tapes.
- Late 2000s, United States
Aug 21, 2019 · But chillwave – a movement that began as a joke and which Carles described as “a genre created by the internet, 4 the internet” – felt like an example of the hype cycle going too far. It ...
Jun 3, 2021 · As genre names go, chillwave is actually fairly tame compared to some of Carles’ other suggestions in a stream-of-consciousness list of borderline gibberish ideas. Alternative options included Chill Bro Core, Kewl Boring Music, Music 2 smoke weed 2, Synth Computer Pop Atmospheric Wave, WaveWave, Pitchforkwavegaze, Forkshit and ZanyCore and more.
- Future Music
Aug 23, 2019 · Chillwave, at least as a term, started as a joke.Ten years since the net-pop genre's biggest summer, that part of its history is well remembered. Blog-provocateur-cum-cultural-critic Carles coined ...
- Colin Joyce
Oct 14, 2019 · The neon pop of the 1980s—a decade in which most chillwave practitioners spent some time in a literal embryonic state—looms large, as it did with the late-’00s internet-native dance subgenre ...
Dec 23, 2020 · One of the only Chillwave songs (and the first) to hit mainstream audiences, racking up over 100 million views on YouTube alone, “Resonance” is widely considered to be one of the greatest songs in the Synth Universe, elevating producer Randy Goffe (better known as Home) to the status of living legend within the community.
Aug 1, 2017 · Proliferation of internet, non-commercial music was made ultra-possible by channels, such as Majestic Casual, Fhinq Music, TSYN and a horde of copies all on YouTube, sourced by the artists via Soundcloud and Bandcamp. This then later evolved into, of course, pop and EDM.
